Journal Special issue: Association Football

Every time the FIFA world cup comes around, there is a flurry of research into football. This may be aerodynamics, shoe traction or impact mechanics. To capture the research conducted surrounding the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, journal Sports Engineering is planning a special issue on association football.

If you have some research which you think would be at home in the journal please see the flyer or contact the associate editors Simon Choppin (s.choppin@shu.ac.uk) or Tom Allen (t.allen@shu.ac.uk).

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I have an issue which is causing some concern. As we will putting our products range through the PPE process for CE accreditation. The product range which is patent pending, is a foam based material that have extremely impressive impact properties and will be used as an protective product for the lower leg region in football & rugby, because of the high volumes of stud impacts and slicing. that occurs in these two sports

My question is – as there are no specific standards or classicication for my product. I am therefore forced to have my product assessed by the EN13061-2009 for a Hard shell shin guard. where the testing process for the stud impact and stud slicing is conducted via a steel rod to represent the action of a stud on contact .

I was wondering why the testing critera is not tested by materials that are currenlty used by the boots Manufacturers such as plastics and alumimiium studs.Alternatively can a new standard be created and considered as long as it pass the health and safety issues?

Is this something that can be raised and discussed with the governing body/bodies as I feel the currently standards does not reflect a real and current method of testing for new impact products coming into the market.